barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 41
Average Score on site – 48
Highest Haul: 12 – Van Persie (6, doubled as he was my captain my captain)
Lowest Haul: 2 players got 2 points for appearing, 2 others got none as they didn’t play at all.
Average Score Per Player 3.7
Accrued Score – 896
Place in my own fecking league – 77, down 2 places
Points Off the top – 297 (I forgot to carry a one, so I thought for a second it was 197, then got a second kick in balls when I checked my maths)
State Of Play
For all my blah blah, it’s the same old blah blah in last game week, with all my planning I managed to put together a team that only 9 players appeared for the clubs (as a direct result I can’t make fun of Newcastle replacing a striker who is at the African Nations Cup with another strikers who is… also at the African Nations Cup).
To be honest I am feeling so bad about this game*, if I was shit at the start it’d be fine, but when I started I was great at it, and with the same skill set I am being overtaken, it feels like I’ve the fantasy football equivalent of the career arc of Lee Sharpe. Boo Hoo. Like if I was clutching at straws, making half decisions then I’d understand, dang. Maybe I should pretend that I am letting a child make my decisions?
Maybe it’s a young man’s game… Maybe I’m like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, just winding the clock down, I need a Mel Gibson character element in my life, any offers?
* = (I know in real terms this game isn’t that important, just in case my mum reads or anything, I am genuinely okay!)
Vindication
In Microsoft Word, you can set phrases/words you use a lot to be triggered by certain keystrokes, I better set one up for “I captained Van Persie, and he got me a large amount of this week’s points.
D’oh
Not managing to pick an entire team that played is a definite black mark on my journal. Getting notes sent home to yer folks was always worst on Fridays.
Screenshot of my team from last game week.
Questions / Hunch / Drama / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky have spotted it.
Remember when David James played spending too much time on the Playstation for his clumsy decisions, well De Gea has gone one step more with the need to get laser eye surgery! Serious? This is up there with the signing of Bebe. In the last 8 or so years, Ferguson has signed a helluva lot of duds, but any scouting report that mentions a goalkeeper that has vision problems should set off alarm bells. I do remember a taxi driver telling me that Brian O’Driscoll was a better player before he got his laser eye surgery, because before that he went for space that he was misjudging and got trickier tries and whatnots. But then again he was a Taxi Driver, and they will say anything with no fear of the conversational consequences.
So I better check my watch, yep it’s crisis o’clock time in Arsenal again, or is it Man Utd right now? Maybe Man City? Chelsea has the most chatter of transfers right now, Villa Boas seems to be intent on the transformation, it is funny what with Drogba and Lampard clearly being kept for the mean time, and certainly being encouraged to leave with passivity, to be fair they are OLD (essentially my age), but to be letting Sturridge get in a tizzy over his contract seems a bad idea.
Here’s a thing about spin, Liverpool just signed the 2nd or 3rd biggest kit deal in the premiership, fair boules, it’s a worldwide free market etc etc. Yet some articles have been about why Adidas wouldn’t stump up as much as Liverpool were looking for, basically because Liverpool aren’t as successful as Adidas want them to be? Giving up following Man Utd, has definitely given me a sense of the bigger picture and how ‘the media’ projects a lot of “problems” at clubs, for every blog/newspaper/radio person giving their opinion on a problem there must be a new angle on it. Ok, I think I’m waffling at this stage
Super Sunday coming up, big big matches between top top teams, these weekends are tougher for FF managers than the fans, I don’t think anyone would be surprised if any of those big 4 scored, ergo you wouldn’t wanna use any of those teams’ defenders, but in particular the City/Spurs game, there are so many potential scorers who do you captain. With the Arsenal/Man Utd match it reminds me more of soccer in primary school, the two best players get to be captain (in this case Rooney and RVP) and then just pick teams to play with them.
Transfers/Theory/Selection
Okay, Samba still hasn’t moved which is a bollocks, as since he was “sick” last week, he might still be “sick” this weekend, why don’t they use the magic sponge on him? Or even better get some 7 up, and stir with a fork when it’s heated up. Never failed me. (interesting to see Cahill was played and made Captain at Bolton when he clearly on way out, does that mean Blackburn don’t trust Samba or Samba is of a more agitative outlook). But my other gamble of McEachran has now moved to Swansea, so surely he’ll come off the bench at least this gameweek.
Anyone notice that after watch MOTD this weekend, Swansea are suddenly brilliant? The BBC’s pundits on the top level are truly appalling. But ever see Steve Claridge on their football league show? Brilliant. So where was I? Oh yeah Swansea, I’ll hold my hands up other than Vorm I couldn’t pick any of them from a line up (police like, not a team sheet)
This week’s http://fantasy.premierleague.com/the-scout/ make a real good point about Ryan Taylor, one I certainly didn’t spot, the fact that he’d moved into midfield.
So I’ve got rid of Walker for Spurs, basically they have 3 games in last 6 weeks, that are against other ‘big teams’, so I wouldn’t’ be playing him any of those times, and I brought in the previous mentioned Taylor.
And on a similar level, one keeper of mine is Friedal and the other was Begovic, but he is second choice now, so I’ve swapped him for Paddy Kenny at QPR, for the same reason I mention later on in the keeping an eye on section. I will be swapping my two keepers every second week I reckon for next 6 gameweeks.
As you can see from my selection, I am on that tightrope of a full team, with 2 doubtfuls, fingers crossed.
My Captain, My Captain.
I’ve a general wariness about using RVP for this game, and will probably fret over this all night. Similarly my other big hitter is Bale, who is fantastic but I feel Manchini will choose to favour not losing this match as opposed to winning it, so will possibly just choke the game, so will forgo Bale too. (I’m lucky I work till 2am tonight, so I can change it later), so the question is who do I go with, I need variables to start falling in my favour, so It’s gonna be two red and striped jersey wearing me to pick between, Walters and Sessegnon, who funnily enough are the subject of a head to head in this week’s http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk. Sessegnon has a higher ICT index, but in truth I don’t really know what that means. It all points to Sessegnon, so I will err for him, with the Irish international being my vice captain.
My Team this week
Keeping An Eye On
Well everyone , but particular QPR, bringing in two centre backs, who will both be on good cash, so surely they’ll start and Mark Hughes has always built his teams on a strong defence, put in the fact Alex is a demon with the toepoker freekicks, could be quite a buy (but at 5.4, to Onuoha’s 4.6…). And they have very favourable fixtures for next few weeks.
And Stephen Ireland is really creating a positive buzz again, and once again quite affordable.
Captain's Corner with Phergal
[NB Back Of The Net Boy is not responsible for Captain’s Corner spelling, grammar and basic text layout]
Another wide-open gameweek for captaincy, no obvious real obvious choice with some of the top teams facing each other. Let's take look.
Man U@Arsenal - Should be a cracker. Arsenal will be looking to bounce back after a 3-2 defeat to Swansea last week but more importantly they'll be looking to avenge a humiliating 8-2 defeat at Old Trafford last year. It won't be easy though, Vermaelen and Arteta won't make this one and United have a fit Smalling and Jones for defensive duties. RVP will still be a popular choice here. For United I like Nani, he's not been very consistent but seems to score in big games, having netted against Chelsea and Arsenal earlier in the season.
Spurs @ Man City - City seem to be focusing on defending again like last season and looking more likley to grind out 1 nils. They put five past Spurs early season though but i don't expect a repeat. Aguero looks a good bet and as always Silva.
Norwich@ Chelsea - Norwich leak goals and this looks the most captain friendly fixture this week. Torres looks promising again but how many times have we been burned by him in the past, could be a great gamble but not for the faint of heart. I like Sturridge here more, he should be available although there's some rumours of tension between him and AVB but that shouldn't stop him bagging a goal here.
Other nice picks this week are Walters @home to West Brom and Sessegnon @ Swansea..
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